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Attendance Thread - Watford

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The cart is being put before the horse a bit here.

We are making great progress on the pitch, let’s keep that going until we hopefully get to the point tickets are like gold dust for a while. If you’ve got built up demand THEN extend, you’re much more likely to sell the extras.

Being able to get a ticket whenever you fancy isn’t a good way to make people commit themselves to going every week.
 

The quality of match day experience needs vastly improvising before ever looking at capacity.



Queuing up like cattle for a piss and the minging food and drinks at half time, the queues leaving the ground, put people off.If all that stuff is as good as you find at the most recently built stadia (I’m thinking West Ham’s as I’ve been a few times) your way more likely to attract more fans now. Then worry about capacity later.
 
Mad Ry said:
I disagree. I think it would look better with seats behind both goals. And corners. (A bit like Old Trafford and Celtic Park. But that's just my opinions.

It's 66,000 not 63,000. 11,000 extra all the way from South to North
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Nelson! said:
The cart is being put before the horse a bit here.

We are making great progress on the pitch, let’s keep that going until we hopefully get to the point tickets are like gold dust for a while. If you’ve got built up demand THEN extend, you’re much more likely to sell the extras.

Being able to get a ticket whenever you fancy isn’t a good way to make people commit themselves to going every week.
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This. We ultimately don't have enough matchgoing supporters to justify even considering an extension.
 
red mackem said:
The quality of match day experience needs vastly improvising before ever looking at capacity.



Queuing up like cattle for a piss and the minging food and drinks at half time, the queues leaving the ground, put people off.If all that stuff is as good as you find at the most recently built stadia (I’m thinking West Ham’s as I’ve been a few times) your way more likely to attract more fans now. Then worry about capacity later.
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I don't know if you go to away games, but the SOL is faster than just about any other stadium to get a pint and piss.
 
red mackem said:
The quality of match day experience needs vastly improvising before ever looking at capacity.



Queuing up like cattle for a piss and the minging food and drinks at half time, the queues leaving the ground, put people off.If all that stuff is as good as you find at the most recently built stadia (I’m thinking West Ham’s as I’ve been a few times) your way more likely to attract more fans now. Then worry about capacity later.
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I agree I go every home games and it pains me to say but matchday experience is crap
 
beezer said:
The thing is the extension of the SWC and SS would only replicate what’s at the north end and they’re pretty crap seats no one wants. Would have been better to do the east stand first. Better seats and would have given loads of extra room for bars etc. even if they didn’t want to make it corporate like the west side it would have given the stadium a more even feel.
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Presumably it's cheaper to stick an end on next to an existing upper tier than to build a completely separate upper tier (size of the tier aside)
 
JPS said:
I agree I go every home games and it pains me to say but matchday experience is crap
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It’s poop. To put it right is gunna cost money too. The inner area of the stadium needs ‘expanding’ so the toilet facilities can be expanded, more exits made so it doesn’t take so fkin long to leave the ground and the food facilities can be significantly upgraded
 
HebburnMackem said:
I don't know if you go to away games, but the SOL is faster than just about any other stadium to get a pint and piss.
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Used to go to plenty 10years ago but moved abroad.


Not the modern luxury ones. Match day experience at the Olympic stadium was the benchmark for me. Used to live near the stadium and went with a West Ham mate a few times.

If the experience on a match day was like that I’m sure full capacity wouldn’t take much
 
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